Mack Maloney's Military XiFiles - Never Hang Up on a Ghost:

June 28, 2026

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“It only happens with bread,” Agent X insists after his third unexplained encounter at a New England Market Basket. In the latest incident, a loaf silently rocketed thirty feet across the aisle, barely missing a shopper who shrieked rather than screamed. The same brand, the same section of the store, the same impossible trajectory. A fellow employee once told him, “You should work here on the overnight shift.” The supermarket chain has drawn enough reports of Victorian-dressed apparitions and flying groceries that local news has covered the phenomenon, and one store in Wilmington is now widely considered haunted.

The Haunted Universe Thesis

Host Mack Maloney frames these mundane anomalies within a larger argument. His new book, Mac Maloney’s Haunted Universe Part Two, collects roughly 50,000 words of verified weirdness—stories that have accumulated since the first volume sold well in 2018. “People want to think we live in a normal place,” he says, “but we don’t.” The organizing idea is that our reality may be the wrong copy: an alternate universe where everything goes sideways. “We’re in the haunted universe,” Maloney proposes. “Things just go wrong here.”

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What you'll learn

1 (02:51) **Show Opening & Host Introductions** - Mack Money opens the show from the Stopy Gallery restaurant in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and introduces the regular cast members (Switchy, Club, Uncle Al, Agent X, Susan K, Brandy X).
2 (24:21) **Agent X's "Bread Ghost" at Market Basket** - Agent X recounts the third occurrence of a loaf of bread inexplicably launching itself across an aisle at a Market Basket grocery store, witnessed by a woman.
3 (33:58) **Doppelganger Encounters** - Uncle Al shares a story about seeing his exact double walking through a store, and later finding the man had a similar charge account at a hardware store.
4 (38:00) **Book Promo & Top 10 Deadly Toys** - Mack promotes his new book, *Haunted Universe Part Two*, and Switchy reads a list of the top 10 most dangerously unsafe toys ever sold.
5 (57:00) **Post-Break Banter & Show Resumption** - The cast returns from break, discussing food and Uncle Al's recent fall down a staircase, which he survived without serious injury.
6 (73:55) **Top 5 Phone Calls from the Dead** - Brandy X reads a list of the top five most famous and documented cases of ghostly phone calls.
7 (88:55) **Weird History & Occult Trivia** - The group reads a series of strange historical and paranormal factoids from Mack's book.

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Show Notes

As a tease for Mack's new book, the gang reads passages from "Mack Maloney's Haunted Universe, Volume 2." What happens if you wear blue denim in North Korea? Who was the mysterious figure that spied on U.S. forces in Afghanistan but was only visible on NightVision? What is the largest UFO ever reported? What was the smallest? What happens when you get a text message from someone who is dead?

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